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Section: Software

BZR

Participants : Eric Rutten [correspondant] , Gwenaël Delaval [POP ART team] .

BZR is a reactive language, belonging to the synchronous languages family, whose main feature is to include discrete controller synthesis within its compilation. It is equipped with a behavioral contract mechanisms, where assumptions can be described, as well as an "enforce" property part: the semantics of the latter is that the property should be enforced by controlling the behaviour of the node equipped with the contract. This property will be enforced by an automatically built controller, which will act on free controllable variables given by the programmer.

BZR is now further developed with the Pop-Art team, where G. Delaval got a position. It has been designed and developed in the Sardes team in relation with the research topic on Model-based Control of Adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems. It is currently applied in different directions: component-based design and the Fractal framework; real-time control systems and the Orccad design environment; operating systems and administration loops in virtual machines; hardware and reconfigurable architecture (FPGAs).

See also the web page http://bzr.inria.fr .

  • ACM: D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Features—Control structures; C.3 [Special-purpose and Application-based Systems]: Real-time and embedded systems; D.2.2 [Software Engineering]: Design Tools and Techniques—Computer-aided software engineering, State diagrams; D.2.4 [Software Engineering]: Software / Program Verification—Formal methods, Programming by contract

  • Keywords: Discrete controller synthesis, modularity, components, contracts, reactive systems, synchronous programming, adaptive and reconfigurable systems

  • Software benefit: the first integration of discrete control synthesis in a compiler, making it usable at the level of the programming language.

  • License: TBD

  • Type of human computer interaction: programming language and command-line interface

  • OS/Middleware: Linux

  • Programming language: Caml; generates C or Java or Caml executable code